Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 24:24 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 24. 24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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Role in This Section
Job states “They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low” as one poetic claim in A Disputed Closing Imagines or Questions the Wicked's End.
Read It With
- Job 24:18–24:25
Keep Job 24:24 with the paragraph titled “A Disputed Closing Imagines or Questions the Wicked's End.” Job states “They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low” as one poetic claim in A Disputed Closing Imagines or Questions the Wicked's End. The book's final verdict prevents speaker flattening.
Why It Needs Context
The verse is a premise, image, response, or transition within Job 24:18–24:25, not an independent maxim. Job states “They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low” as one poetic claim in A Disputed Closing Imagines or Questions the Wicked's End.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 24:18–24:25 — A Disputed Closing Imagines or Questions the Wicked's EndSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 24:18–24:25, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 24:18–24:25
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